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A recurring market update from Intrepid Investment Bankers highlighting transaction activity, valuation trends and capital markets developments affecting middle-market companies.
Cameron’s experience suggests that the most impactful leaders are rarely those who react fastest. They are the ones who maintain clarity when everyone else is distracted.
CEOs aren’t expecting much improvement in business conditions for the foreseeable future, but for some, this means the time is ripe for growth. ‘Too much uncertainty is an opportunity.’
Sioux Honey Association president and CEO shares insights into the co-op model and how it has kept momentum for a century.
Here’s how Polywood CEO Maller shifted manufacturing operations from traditional batch-style methodologies to a one piece flow that gives customers thousands of customizations.
Honorees share how—and why—they recruit and support military community recruits.
Cameron’s experience suggests that the most impactful leaders are rarely those who react fastest. They are the ones who maintain clarity when everyone else is distracted.
Honorees share how—and why—they recruit and support military community recruits.
The Patriots in Business Award recognizes outstanding businesses that lead our nation in supporting active-duty military members, veterans and their families and exemplify the U.S. Military Academy values of Duty, Honor and Country through their business practices.
Each of us has the opportunity to lead when it comes to our own well-being and the well-being of those we love.
After slashing monthly expenses by more than 80 percent, Health N Sync CEO Karim Lalani lays out the weekly metrics he tracked and the rules governing his next 50 hires.
Womack leads the energy company with one maxim above all others: Great is not good enough if you stop getting better.
A recurring market update from Intrepid Investment Bankers highlighting transaction activity, valuation trends and capital markets developments affecting middle-market companies.
Sioux Honey Association president and CEO shares insights into the co-op model and how it has kept momentum for a century.
Here’s how Polywood CEO Maller shifted manufacturing operations from traditional batch-style methodologies to a one piece flow that gives customers thousands of customizations.
The companies that grow successfully aren’t the ones that avoid disruption. They’re the ones that build the capacity to move through it.
CEO Brandon Sawalich on automation, scaling production and preparing the hearing aid manufacturer for its next generation of technology.
Facing a revolving door of employees, manufacturing chief Paul Centenari has developed unique programs to keep his people on board—by putting them first: ‘The more you give, the more you get.’
A recurring market update from Intrepid Investment Bankers highlighting transaction activity, valuation trends and capital markets developments affecting middle-market companies.
The opportunity for leadership is not to view every project through a tax lens. It is to make sure the financial strategy surrounding innovation reflects where the business is investing today.
We’ve built entire infrastructures, including systems, budgets, incentives, reporting lines and even our language, around products. Then we’re surprised when customers behave like transactions.
In the AI era, CEOs need a new playbook—and a new set of priorities.
Heightened oversight tests whether a company can give a consistent account of its decisions across the boardroom, public disclosures, global operations and political cycles.
It never shows up as a single line item, but complexity is quietly driving down profitability across the business. Learning to measure it—and manage it—may be the one lever CEOs still fully control.
Being tough doesn’t mean being cruel. It means knowing how to balance respect with directness—and having the courage to do both at the same time.
As AI reshapes jobs and workflows, CEOs need a better way to talk with employees about changing roles, new skills and what comes next.
In a time of AI-assisted phantom fits and miscast hires, organizations need to bring back the personal touch.
Are your managers actually learning to lead or just learning to look like leaders?
From application through onboarding, does the hiring process reflect the culture and values your organization represents?
Great teams aren’t powered by solo heroes—they win when people over-communicate under pressure, drop the ego and rotate in and out of the lead so the whole system can move faster together.
Tensordyne CEO Marc Bolitho says logarithmic math can cut AI’s energy bill by 75 percent, and that winning over cautious data center operators takes more than better technology.
In the AI era, CEOs need a new playbook—and a new set of priorities.
In PE-backed environments, where buyers are already pricing AI capability at exit, the ownership gap has a dollar figure attached to it.
As AI reshapes jobs and workflows, CEOs need a better way to talk with employees about changing roles, new skills and what comes next.
Modern AI introduces risks older tools never had. Keeping humans in the loop is now an operational necessity.
We’ve underestimated unthinkable risks before. The debate over AI raises an uncomfortable question: Are we doing it again?
Check what you think you know about alcohol against what the research really says.
It’s an understandable goal to want to live as long a life as possible. But living longer may not be the same as living well. Here’s how to shift the focus.
The doctor running Mayo Clinic’s world-renowned Executive Health program on what’s really essential when it comes to preserving CEO healthspans. “Very few are doing those things right.”
From memory, creativity and cognition gains to powerful stress relief, there’s a lot to like—medically—about the great outdoors.
Left unchecked, it can lead to a host of chronic diseases. But there are ways to fight back.
To protect your immune system as you age, take steps to protect your overall health. A guide.
From weekly war-room meetings to testifying in D.C., Julie Robbins has spent the past year learning how to protect a creative manufacturer in a policy minefield—and how to bring employees and fans along.
There’s far more unknown than known about what happens next following the Supreme Court’s ruling. Here’s how to start figuring things out.
The Supreme Court just invalidated most of the president’s tariffs. Before you exhale, perhaps ask a few questions of your team.
Beyond the direct impact on prices, there are multiple effects anticipated on the supply chain, much like those experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s what to do.
Nearly half of the 300 CEOs surveyed polled this May also say they have already paused hiring or making major new investments in their business. ‘This is not the time to panic but to consciously refine.’
The supply chain uncertainty unleashed by the overhaul of tariff levels in the U.S. is having an immediate and direct impact on the warehousing sector.
Geopolitical conflict, trade disruption and policy whiplash have defined the first half of 2026. CEOs share where they’re putting their energy from here.
We’re making the same decisions with AI. But for leaders who ask different questions, AI changes the assignment.
In a time of AI-assisted phantom fits and miscast hires, organizations need to bring back the personal touch.
Why tomorrow’s CEOs must prepare for a world of tighter financing, fewer training grounds for talent and more consequential decisions.
‘None of these moves asks you to predict the future or bet the org chart. That’s what makes them so valuable in the face of today’s uncertainty.’
Organizations that treat connection as a metric, not a mood, may very well see the results in this age of AI, climate and societal disruption.
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Over 70% of Executives Surveyed Agree: Many Strategic Planning Efforts Lack Systematic Approach Tips for Enhancing Your Strategic Planning Process
Executives expressed frustration with their current strategic planning process. Issues include:
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